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Complimenting correctly forces people to work for future successes. People stick with the idea that they can be successful when they hear this from others with compliments. This energizes them to seek these achievements. Do not expect to take a compliment before you compliment someone else - show people that they can get a compliment. Simply complimenting an individual is not enough. All worthy people should be given recognition. For instance, a great achiever has a lot of people working with this person that contributes to the achievements. Compliments should also go for this assisting team, not just to the achiever individual seen in the front. At this point, we need to develop a “Virtuous Cycle” of compliment, if we want to invent a space for the “Big Potential”. We need to motivate more people and be the compliment givers. A researcher friend, Michelle Gielan, and Shawn Achor found in their research that 31 percent of employees in firms do not speak up about it even though they think positively about others. These called “Secret 31” could make perfect compliment givers. Achor thinks we should try finding the Secret 31 by chatting and interviewing and afterward, represent a role model that gives compliments at any time suitable. We can motivate “the Secret 31” to speak up by offering less scary ways of complimenting such as writing emails or agreeing with somebody else’s compliments. Finally, they will find the courage to speak up about what they feel favorable for others. Chapter 5 - We need to know how to object to and defeat negativity, and when to run away from it. Negativity is just like smoking a cigarette, how you heard? When we breathe other’s smoke even though not having one, we get other’s negative emotions to our inside. This is a huge issue in the way to find the Big Potential. Just exposure to negative thoughts decreases our willingness and makes us doubtful about future achievements. Fortunately, the fourth action on the way to Big Potential is to “Defend” ourselves against any negatives. Because we are talking about defending ourselves, let’s take strategies from war, a place where powerful protection is vital. During a war, while moats stop enemies as much as they can, strongholds assist hosts to regain their power. By refraining from any possible place of negativity such as television and the Internet sometimes, we can develop our moats in daily life. For instance, our states of mind are unprotected just after we woke up and just before we fell into sleep. The strongholds of our minds can be the appreciation times to remember what is positive, and the routines of being conscious to avoid negative disturbances. Sometimes, even the greatest strongholds cannot prevent the take over of negativities such as stress. At these times, ”Mental Aikido” is a beneficial practice. Aikido assists fighters to change the course of the attack of their enemies. Similarly, the negatives can be turned into positives. We can do it by making sense of the occurrence that we caught up the negativity. By focusing on things that we care we should ask ourselves whether the thing we are stressed about really worths it and see the whole truth. For example, the root cause of a writer’s stress over the last day could be the willingness of the writer to produce a publication. When the writer remembers this, this will motivate the writer to move further. Another strategy to change the course of the negatives is to make ourselves remember not being lonely. When we recognize that others such as peers or relatives are also having alike emotions, we can direct ourselves to assist them. Furthermore, in this way, our relationships would get better. However, at the times when our defense and redirection are not successful and cannot get off negativity, this might be a ring to stop. Studies demonstrate that resting enhances effectiveness, efficiency, and well-being. A constant rest may be needed as well. If we constantly lose over negativity and trials are not useful anymore, it is time to change the ways. If you are wasting all your vigor on a despairing occupation, you are missing opportunities where you can achieve great things. Chapter 6 - To sustain impetus, focus on significance, draw achievements in your mind, and congratulate every achievement. The former part of this review told us the ways to cease negativity in our path to reach the Big Potential. In stopping negativity, we should also create its contrary which is positivity. Since positivity will motivate you and the people surrounding you to keep fighting for your purposes. The final action for Big Potential is this: “Sustain” momentum. For this, it is necessary to continuously add positivity to the “Virtuous Cycle”. However, you may find it challenging to accomplish when you are anxious or you are doing things that do not inspire you. Under these circumstances, Achor recommends developing a “Tour of Meaning”. An enlivened tale of you that you author about your occupation. Think about a teacher, for instance. He might define his occupation as giving marks to student exams all the time, however, this is not a motivating definition. When he portrays his work as developing forthcoming leaders, he finds something more significant and thus, more encouraging. If you come up with a question to describe your work, or business, tell the significance of it in your tale. You can also sustain momentum by the force of envisioning. When you visualize something lively with your brain, it feels like it is easier to achieve, and this drives you to move forward. To put it another way, picturing forthcoming achievements and favorable results attracts you through them like a magnet. An excellent way to picture a brilliant future is by authoring your thoughts with any features. Eventually, at the time you got what you wanted and have been picturing in your mind, you should congratulate yourself. This is not only because this success is a turning point, but celebrations, either little or grand, can also enhance momentum. The instances of celebrations make you remember your advancements so far and this motivates you to achieve more. Only congratulating your turning points or advancements is not enough. Congratulating others’ abilities and work is also useful to enhance momentum. Toyota’s North American administration ascertained this with the start of a routine to congratulate workers’ abilities and achievements. A six percent rise in productivity presented an excellent advancement that year, when contrasted to the one percent rise they perform annually. With the power of congratulating, envisioning, and finding significance to keep momentum, we also keep the “Virtuous Cycle” that allows our “Big Potential”. Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being by Shawn Achor Book Review If we work towards getting engaged with others and assisting them to perform the best they can, all of us can obtain the “Big Potential”. To make it possible, there are five actions to be taken. First of all, we should have people around us who unearth our best selves. Later, we need to transform with the power we have and increase that power of others as well. Then, we should advance other people by compliments and take defense against negativities around us like anxiety. Finally, we should keep momentum by significance, envisioning achievements, and congratulating. Focus on the correct things people do. Our brain tends to take whatever we highlight as a focal point, and when we highlight negativities, somehow, we are strengthening those. This shows why we always need to focus on positivities. Make it your habit to mail people your recognition or compliment for the correct things they do. These mails will motivate them to work for the perfect, thrust them to always look for valuable actions that they can take compliments for, and unearth hidden favorable things.